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Show me yours

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I’m showing you mine.

Alchemy of self

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Alchemy: the ancient art of transmutation.  Observe the separation and liberation of distinct elements from one another.

Now, let us apply this toward ourselves.  Watch the human form in the laboratory.  Subject it to extreme heat.  Burn the flesh from the spirit, and allow the spirit to radiate unencumbered.

What applications shall we employ to distinguish these ingredients?
-fire water (alcohol)
-smoke (marijuana)
-disco biscuits (methaqualone)

To detach…

Friday, January 9th, 2009

… the spirit from the body. How many have died trying to do that?  To attain freedom by extracting the spirit from the body’s grip?  (we miss you, pioneers!- Janis Joplin & John Belushi)

Body and spirit are two different elements. The body is the grounded hearth in which the flame may sit.

The body must be soothed into a slow release of tension so that the two, body and spirit, can co-exist: not entangled, but separate, in relationship to one another.  Two paralell planes in space: two strands of the DNA which coil around each other, but do not touch.  The spirit rises ever-higher into a shape-shifting body all it’s own which can be trained for maximum expression of the individual.  The two components, body and spirit, negotiate their expression.  The two may work in tandem, pushing and pulling, navigating around, through and for one another in space.